Writing Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.

— Hunter S. Thompson

There is no story unless you've written it.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like f***ing — which is fun only…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

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“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as sitting at a desk writing.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

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As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one…

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Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking — which is fun only…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words…

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I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were…

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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of…

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“I have explained many times that I am, by Profession, a Gambler -- not some jock-sniffing nerd or a hired human squawk-box…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting…

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He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of…

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When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is…

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I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else…

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I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight. But I'm…

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This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even…

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“I am a confused Musician who got sidetracked into this goddamn Word business for so long that I never got back to…

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“Well … yes, and here we go again. But before we get to The Work, as it were, I want to make…

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“The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks,…

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Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When…

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There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who…

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One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because…

— Hunter S. Thompson

["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The…

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I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have…

— Hunter S. Thompson